Sophie Calle

The latest edition of Sophie Calle's classic artist's book features three new tales. First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns with three new stories. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book—part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings—is as...

Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on a clandestine exploration of the then-abandoned Hôtel du Palais d'Orsay. She selected room 501 as her home and, without any pre-established method, set about photographing the abandoned hotel over five years. As she explored, she picked up items she found: room numbers, customer reception cards, old telephones, diaries, messages addressed to a...

A catalogue raisonné of never-before-seen abandoned projects by the artist Sophie Calle. 'I hate things being finished. Death is final... Life is in the "almost finished".' - Pablo Picasso 'But when everything comes to an end, what will become of the ideas that went nowhere, that were biding their time in boxes, in coffins? Before we die, we must catalogue...